Gender

In 2004 the sociologists Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris argued that the real clash was not between civilisations, as Samuel Huntington had argued, but between sexes, because of the role played by women, especially in the Muslim world. A revolution among women in such societies was already underway at [...]

The sexual harassment of women has made its way onto the global agenda. The growing alarm sounded by victims of the famous and not so famous in the US looks set to spread to other countries, and could start to have geopolitical ramifications. One such was the defeat of [...]